"I paint with my energy, my intuition. My painting is decided in the moment, passing from light and shade to intense luminosity. I undertake a dialogue with my canvas, it questions what is happening within me : this transition from a fragile to a charged dynamic state.”

Ruffi de Ponteves spent his childhood under the tormented Normandy sky. His mother taught him the essentiality of painting.He attended an art school before embarking on an initial phase of his work in the footsteps of Joan Mitchell.

He later went to Paris to confront his contemporaries, participating in several fairs, and two exhibitions at galleries on Rue Mirosmesnil (8th) and Mazarine (6th); confirming the role his
work might play in French creation.

The experiences, encounters, and challenges that he traverses have made him stronger and bolder. Now, Ruffi doesn’t prevaricate.His painting is free of all constraint – after the time of dreams and feelings comes the moment of action, the fragile moment when everything shifts.For Ruffi, painting is neither completely explicable nor impromptu. It cannot be summed up by a message; it is just an incomprehensible moment, a giddy spell of liberty, an
experience, and a revolt. In fact, it is stability, a breath, a vital drive. A. GIAGLIS 2018